The Ministry of Industry unveiled an ambitious plan for the upcoming Let Ethiopia Produce Expo and Bazaar. The five-day event, starting May 9th at the Millennium Hall, aims to generate Birr three billion in market linkages between Ethiopian manufacturers and domestic and international buyers.
LG Electronics and Metro PLC launched a mobile after-sales service center in Ethiopia through the “Care and Delight” bus on Wednesday March 27, 2013. The two companies has invested 2 million birr on the Mobile repair center.
“LG has always placed customer satisfaction at the core of its initiatives,” stated Riyadh Yusuf, Marketing Manager of Metro Plc, speaking at the launching ceremony. 
LG Electronics is looking to expand its presence in the Ethiopian market by meeting the increasing need for air conditioning 
equipment said Dinir Abubaker, Country Director for the company.
The Ethiopian climate is changing and the need for air conditioning is increasing he noted at the event held to launch the new Titan series of air conditioners to the Ethiopian market at the Hilton Hotel.
The new line of air conditioners have built in voltage switch to protect the conditioners compressor from damage caused by fluctuations in electrical current that is caused by unstable power supply in the African Region explained Sangmin Lee, Vice President of LG East Africa. The air conditioner is also more power effective using 75% less power than other conditioners on the market he claimed.
LG Electronics Corporation is set to open a TVET College in Ethiopia in collaboration with Korean International Cooperation Agency (KICA) and World Together (WT). The institution is named LG Hope TVET College and it is expected to be opened in November.
LG-KOICA Hope TVET College has finished its preparation to provide trainings in the areas of IT (Hardware and Network Servicing) and Electronics which contains two streams of Home and office Equipment servicing and Electronic and multimedia communication servicing. In each training stream the departments only accepted 25 qualified trainees so recently the college has a total of 75 students based on the criteria set by Addis Ababa TVET Agency and the entrance exam set by the college.
